UK Offers $30 Million Contract to Maintain Drug Supply After Brexit

UK Offers $30 Million Contract to Maintain Drug Supply After Brexit
Medicine pills in their original packaging in Brussels, Belgium, on Aug. 9, 2019. Yves Herman/Reuters
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LONDON—Britain is asking logistics providers to bid for a 25 million pound ($30 million) express freight contract to deliver medicines into the country on a daily basis after it has left the European Union on Oct. 31.

The Department for Health and Social Care said the contract would form part of its contingency plans to deal with any complications that stem from Britain’s departure from the world’s biggest trading bloc.